pbrain-gomoku-ai

This is a Gomoku AI written in Python. It uses the minimax algorithm with alpha-beta pruning and iterative deepening to find the best move. It also uses a transposition table to avoid repeating work.

Prerequisites and compilation

The Piskvork manager is a Win32 application and currently supports only Win32 compatible .exe files (furthermore whose name starts with pbrain- prefix). There are several ways how to create .exe from Python files.

1. Install Windows (or Wine for Linux)
2. Install Python3
3. Install PyInstaller and Install Piskvork or PentaZen or make install

Usage

1. make build-win to compile the AI
2. Run the Piskvork manager and select pbrain-gomoku-ai.exe as the AI
3. Play against the AI
4. Enjoy!

• Run make run to run the AI and launch Piskvork for Linux with Wine
• Run make run-win to run the AI and launch Piskvork for Windows
• Run make fclean to remove the compiled AI
• Run make test to run the AI against itself
• Run make uninstall to uninstall Piskvork manager

Architecture

• main.py - contains the main function
• Client.py - handles the main loop and connections with the server
• Agent.py - contains the agent observations and actions logics
• Communication.py - handles the communication with the server
• Protocol.py - contains the protocol response logic
• Policies/*Policy.py - contains the policy logic
• Policies/*Actions.py - contains the policies actions logic

Environment variables

• DEBUG - Add debug logs to stderr
• GMK_POLICY - Gomoku policies (default: RandomPolicy)

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details